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A powerful post from down the page

Posted by Sam Ajemian (reposted) on October 11, 2002 at 20:40:13

Hi Anon. I have heard all these stories of the very early days and one of them is that Berg forced this couple to have sex in front of everybody. I could never establish if this was true, a rumpour, exageration or what. Now you are saying that in 1971 it happened to you. Have you heard or do you know anything about Berg being present in a situation where a poor women was forced to have sex in front of others? About Watchman, he would had not done the things he did if it wasn't for Berg's doctrine. Before he died he was working on a documentary video he was going to do. He mentioned in there that he thought that as many as five thousand minors were sexually molested. He confessed that incident with Peter Amsterdam's minor dauther to the English Judge and on national TV. He did things I didn't like, he was womenizing too much and broke some hearts I am sure, after he left.I talked to him once about this. He did have somekind of new age experience as well and was sending messages around about this new greater concept of god he had discovered. He used language when speaking about God that offended me. Just before he took his life he asked me to send him all the pictures from the book of rememberance. He said he needed it for his therapy. I which I knew what he was going through. I would had tried to help me. One time we were going to the FBI office together with a big box full of documents to expose the Family. On the way there he asked me how I felt about exposing Big Josh. I think he was strugling with the idea of doing so. He had a tender heart towards all those he had live with for so many years. I have heard of his involvment in child adult sexual activity which I will not repeat here. But he did repent of all that and he tried to do all he could do about it. He got his son Romeo out or Romio could still be in. I hated the fact that the Family put words in his mouth, confessing that he was wrong in leaving and fighting the family, and other junk like that. I think he was an idealist, but he ended up with the wrong croud, Berg's cult. They were accusing him of becoming very proud, even Susan Palmer the COG apologist told me that on the phone. So what. I got so upset at her, I mean the guy killed himself and you are complaining about his pride. I told her what I think of her work or research about COG. Nobody can understand the pain of a father whose daughter has been sexually abused but on the other hand most of us should understand the dynamics that changed many in the group from people who gave all to God, to child molesters. What a story! Sam Ajemian